Machine for cutting bread, meat, cheese, &amp;c.



A. HANSEN MACHINE FOR CUTTING BREAD,.MEAT, CHEESE, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 19I5.

11, $fii Patented July 24, 1917 ALBERT HANSEN, OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING BREAD, MEAT, CHEESE, 86G.

Application filed December 30, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT I-IANsEN, mechanical engineer, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at Prinsessegade 46, Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cutting Bread, Meat, Cheese, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a machine for cutting bread, meat, cheese and the like.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

' Figure 1 shows the machine seen from the top with omission of a detail.

Fig. 2 the detail left out in Fig. 1 seen from the top.

Fig. 3 lateral view of the machine and Fig. 4 a fragment of a detail.

On the foot 1 is placed an upright 2 in which is embedded a one armed lever 3 supplied with a handle and bearing a rotary knife 4. A suitable string 5 leads from the lever 3 across a roller 6 and is wound around a spring-case 7 to which it is fastened. A spiral spring placed in the spring-case acts upon the axle of the knife in such a Way as to make it turn when the lever 3 is forced down. The string 5 is unwound from the spring-case 7 and the spiral spring is simultaneously strained, the lever 3 is again raised by the string 5 through the contraction of the spring, when the handle is released and the string 5 will consequently again wind itself around the spring-case. The said spring-case and the spiral spring may be replaced by a drum with a string controlled by a counterweight or spring out side the drum.

When the lever 3 on which is fixed a rod 8 supplied with an eye has been forced a certain distance down and the knife thus has out nearly through the bread, meat, cheese, etc., the rod 8 which through its eye, Fig. 4, seizes a vertical part of a bell-crank 10, will touch a lower stop 9 by which an angular Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1917.

Serial No. 69,463.

gage 11 on the horizontal part of the bellcrank will swing back allowing the coldcut slice of bread, meat, cheese, etc., when quite cut off to fall down. The gage 11 will return to its position when the lever 3 goes up as the rod 8 will then with its eye hit an upper stop 9. The gage 11 may in known manner be adjusted with a screw to regulate the thickness of the slices.

In the hind-wall of the foot-piece is a slit 13, Fig. 3, for a transporting device which carries the uncut meat, bread, etc., forward against the rotary knife.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. In a cutting machine, a support for the article to be cut, a lever fulcrumed thereon, a rotary cutter mounted on said lever, and means to rotate said cutter comprising a spring-controlled drum coaxial with said cutter, and a flexible element adapted to be wound on said drum and so secured to the support and lever that on downward movement of the said lever the drum and cutter are rotated, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cutting machine, a support for the article to be cut, a lever fulcrumed thereon, a rotary cutter mounted on said lever, and means to rotate said cutter comprising a spring-controlled drum coaxial with said cutter, and a flexible element adapted to be wound on said drum and so secured to the support and lever that on downward movement of the said lever the drum and cutter are rotated, the said lever having a rod engaging with a bell-crank having stops for said rod and a gage being adjustable and adapted to swing on the movements of the lever, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT HANSEN.

Witnesses:

BERUH LARSEN, LAURITZ RAsMUssEN.

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